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edenfallingMy peppers, as of September 10! You will note that I moved them from the front porch to their old home on my back deck/porch/whatever.
The bell peppers feel like they could be picked, if I wanted -- they are no longer rock hard and you can tell there's a bunch of empty space inside -- but I'm still waiting for them to ripen and change color. The jalapeños are growing nicely but are obviously not anywhere near ripe. They are also very staggered in size, since unlike the bell pepper plant, which seems to have settled on three full-sized peppers and two tiny ones about the size of my last thumb-joint, the later jalapeño flowers are still turning into new peppers and growing at the same ridiculous pace that the earlier flowers did.
We had a two-day heat wave this week, but aside from that the nights have begun to get chilly, verging on actual cold -- regularly down in the 50s, sometimes down in the 40s, and once down as far as 38F. I will bring the peppers indoors when we begin to get frost, but for now I'm trusting the weather to help them ripen. It's been quite damp the past few days so I haven't fertilized them, but after the weekend I hope to give them a last dose of Miracle Gro. I think the jalapeño, in particular, will appreciate that as it pours resources into its fruit. :-)
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In other news, I've been downloading a bunch of vacation photos tonight and will probably do some extensive photo posts about Star Island in a day or three. But don't hold your breath -- my time management skills are as iffy as ever. *wry*
The bell peppers feel like they could be picked, if I wanted -- they are no longer rock hard and you can tell there's a bunch of empty space inside -- but I'm still waiting for them to ripen and change color. The jalapeños are growing nicely but are obviously not anywhere near ripe. They are also very staggered in size, since unlike the bell pepper plant, which seems to have settled on three full-sized peppers and two tiny ones about the size of my last thumb-joint, the later jalapeño flowers are still turning into new peppers and growing at the same ridiculous pace that the earlier flowers did.
We had a two-day heat wave this week, but aside from that the nights have begun to get chilly, verging on actual cold -- regularly down in the 50s, sometimes down in the 40s, and once down as far as 38F. I will bring the peppers indoors when we begin to get frost, but for now I'm trusting the weather to help them ripen. It's been quite damp the past few days so I haven't fertilized them, but after the weekend I hope to give them a last dose of Miracle Gro. I think the jalapeño, in particular, will appreciate that as it pours resources into its fruit. :-)
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In other news, I've been downloading a bunch of vacation photos tonight and will probably do some extensive photo posts about Star Island in a day or three. But don't hold your breath -- my time management skills are as iffy as ever. *wry*
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